About the position
Are you looking to transform the way a user interacts with modeling and simulations? You know that a good system is more than just the code, infrastructure, and a nice-looking interface—it's the way it addresses a user's needs. As a User Experience (UX) strategist, you put yourself in the user's place to understand the best ways they can engage with the system. We're looking for someone creative like you to develop the ultimate user experience. In this role, you'll guide UX designers and product managers to understand your clients' vision and their users' needs. As the leader of an Agile team, you'll act as a storyteller, translating research into actionable user insights. You'll oversee the full spectrum of the digital creative process, including leading projects, as tasked, in human and computer interaction design. You'll assist in identifying, understanding, and documenting relevant data integration, analysis, and visualization requirements of our customers. You'll develop and discuss “mock-ups” of proposed solutions and user workflows and interfaces. You'll support the gathering user test data and feedback. Your extensive experience with user research, information architecture, rapid prototyping, interface design, usability testing, and product implementation and development will help you advocate for the prioritizations of design-centered changes, refinements, and improvements while keeping the end-user at the center of your work. Are you ready to help our clients meet their mission by supporting national security? Join us. The world can't wait.
Responsibilities
- Guide UX designers and product managers to understand clients' vision and users' needs.
- Lead an Agile team and act as a storyteller, translating research into actionable user insights.
- Oversee the full spectrum of the digital creative process.
- Assist in identifying, understanding, and documenting relevant data integration, analysis, and visualization requirements.
- Develop and discuss mock-ups of proposed solutions and user workflows and interfaces.
- Support the gathering of user test data and feedback.
Requirements
- 11+ years of experience with creating user-centered design solutions across multiple platforms.
- 11+ years of experience with the digital creative process, including soliciting business requirements, conducting user research, information architecture, wireframing, rapid prototyping, and interface design.
- Experience in collaborating with a cross-functional Agile development team.
- Experience with building and maintaining client relationships in a team-based government or professional environment.
- Experience with establishing and managing branding, style guides, and design systems.
- Active TS/SCI clearance; willingness to take a polygraph exam.
- Bachelor's degree.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with Jira and Confluence planning and coordination tools.
- TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph.
- Master's degree in Design, Computer Science, or a related field.
- UX or UI Certification.
Benefits
- Health, life, and disability insurance.
- Financial and retirement benefits.
- Paid leave.
- Professional development.
- Tuition assistance.
- Work-life programs.
- Dependent care.
- Recognition awards program.
